Unclassified road crash in Worthing BN13 on 10 December 2014 at 21:56 involving a Mazda 3
A Mazda 3 and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Worthing at 21:56 on Wednesday 10 December 2014. The 31-year-old male driver of the Mazda 3 and the 25-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 2014
- Wednesday, 21:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 3 and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82513, longitude -0.39534, in the BN13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tarring, Worthing, BN13 1JB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471407264
- Council area
- Worthing
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 2019.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 25 February 2019
2 m awayRef 2019471901102
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Worthing, 9 November 1988
4 m awayRef 198847XA80794
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on a C road in Worthing, 17 January 2008
4 m awayRef 2008470800399
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Worthing, 17 December 1996
17 m awayRef 199647XA60646
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 21 March 1979
17 m awayRef 197947XA90172
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Worthing, 13 May 2004
18 m awayRef 200447K175173
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 3)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2014471407264 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worthing road accident statistics for 2014.